Elliot Kaufman
@ElliotKaufman6
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Wall Street Journal editorial-board member.
New York
Joined September 2015
Why do we pretend there is an epidemic of U.S. police killing unarmed black people? Only nine such shootings and 19 of unarmed whites in 2019.
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Peter Thiel gets interrupted at the Cambridge Union by a protester yelling about genocide in Gaza. You might appreciate his response:. "It sort of feels like the pot calling the kettle black, or people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks. In my telling, the only genocidal thing.
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It’s official, apartheid South Africa suffered from too much free speech.
Elon Musk grew up in elite white communities in South Africa, detached from apartheid’s atrocities and surrounded by anti-Black propaganda. He sees his takeover of Twitter as a free speech win but in his youth did not suffer the effects of misinformation.
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Seems crazy that there has been no update from Business Insider to even mention details from the police report and DMs that contradict or cast doubt on the serious allegations against Portnoy that it reported.
Will @BusinessInsider include any of the facts I just dropped on their head? #cancelbuisnessinsider.
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WSJ editorial: "The asset freezes serve not to end an emergency but to incapacitate and intimidate protesters after the fact." @WSJopinion.
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1.5 billion shekel contract: Elbit will build a factory to manufacture bombs for Israeli Air Force aircraft. The plant is intended to reduce Israel's dependence on the supply of bombs from the US, some of which is delayed due to politics.
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WSJ editorial: Call yourself an “American”? Please don’t. It’s on Stanford’s new index of forbidden words.
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Remember Rafah? For months, the Biden mantra was that Israel had “no credible plan” to evacuate the city’s civilians. The Israelis finally went ahead, and two weeks later they have safely evacuated an estimated 950,000 people. This was supposed to be impossible. WSJ editorial:
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WSJ reports that Sinwar cited pressure from the Israeli opposition and the White House as reasons to reject a hostage deal and hold out for more.
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Politico tries to understand the Federalist Society, this is the result:
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WSJ editorial cites Trump’s line on the hostages as one of his best of the night—“more forceful than anything Mr. Biden has said in four years.”
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Just like that, a failed court has become a rogue court. The ICC judges may think they have signed arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders. But in picking up where the mob left off down the road in Amsterdam, they have signed their institution’s own death warrant. WSJ editorial:
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Today was a good day. After having a baby boy last Thursday night, Sarah and I named him Lev at his bris this morning. Lev Moshe Kaufman in full. While that was happening, word arrived that I've been promoted to the WSJ editorial board. I'll be a full-time editorial writer.
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WSJ editorial against the early calls--and expect more of them--for a ceasefire. "The time for a ceasefire is when Israel has defeated its enemies.".
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Readers to President Trump: Knock It Off - WSJ letters
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WSJ editorial:. Call it what it is: a U.S. arms embargo against Israel.
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The U.S. recognizes Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights. Not sure why U.S. papers feel like they have to vindicate the Syrian cause, and Assad's right to tyrannize even more people, by writing "Israeli-occupied Golan" or "Israeli-controlled Golan.". That's over.
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If the NDP votes to affirm the invocation of the Emergencies Act now, after even the nonemergency has passed, how can the party of Tommy Douglas not implode?.
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On Oct. 20, UNRWA wrote in to complain about one of our WSJ editorials. It insisted that two of our claims were false:. 1) Hamas is stealing aid.2) UNRWA has long employed Hamas members. How do those look today?
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To any fair-minded observer, the sessions for government employees are not “racial sensitivity trainings” but political indoctrination. @realchrisrufo gets down to the details. via @WSJ.
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Then he gets asked about Israel's use of AI in war and answers as follows:. "I'm not on top of all the details of what's going on Israel because my bias is to defer to Israel. It's not for us to second-guess everything, and I believe that broadly the IDF gets to decide what it.
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Hamas said Tuesday that an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City hospital killed at least 500 Palestinians. Turns out it wasn’t Israeli, it wasn’t an airstrike, it didn’t hit the hospital, nowhere close to 500 people were killed, and Hamas knew it. Me in WSJ:.
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NYT reports that the stability Biden brought to international affairs is now gone. Amit Segal: “Who volunteers to tell them?”
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WSJ editorial - The Message of Canada’s Trucker Protest: It’s time for the pandemic emergency orders to end.
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“Not once has Unrwa notified Israel that Hamas’s military is violating the neutrality of its facilities. Not once in the whole war,” says @AmirwWeissbrod. The core issue is that Unrwa itself is a violation of neutrality. WSJ editorial:
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He's asked about Gaza civilian casualties. He answers that all the alternatives are fake. The U.N. won't do anything. International institutions won't do anything. "Where I'm sympathetic to the Israeli side is that: These things don't actually work.".
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“I don’t know what communion is but how dare you withhold it from our president” is the new nationalism.
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Jews hunted in the streets of Europe. It’s worth retracing the steps for how Europe got here, the one place it swore it would never go again.
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At age 9, I published my first letter to the editor, a polemic in the National Post against the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly. Today, I started as The Wall Street Journal's letters editor. I hear all good stories need an arc but let's appreciate the elegance of a straight line.
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Israel is already offering unprecedented strategic concessions and risking its soldiers’ lives to free hostages. U.S. pressure should be on Hamas, which took the hostages and murders them. New WSJ editorial:
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"The world demands that Israel withdraw to its original borders after every conflict it wins. "Is it surprising that aggressors repeatedly try to destroy the Jewish state, knowing that they face little to no threat of loss of territory?". @amit_segal in The Wall Street Journal:
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Because that's the lesson of Israel's experience with Hezbollah: Don't get too worked up about small violations and aggressions, they'll never add up to anything. Obama-Biden officials are incorrigible.
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Israel’s campaign has been a remarkable display of intelligence, technological skill and, above all, political will. WSJ editorial:
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A new study finds that more food is being delivered to Gaza today than before the war. The humanitarian supply has provided an average of 3,374 calories per person daily, well above the 2,100 minimum standard, while meeting the protein and fat benchmarks. In tomorrow's WSJ:
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Why are sweeping emergency powers needed to get government and police to do their jobs?. My @WSJopinion article on Trudeau, truckers and vaccine mandates:
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From the people who brought you “Israeli apartheid” comes another trendy smear: “Israeli genocide.”. The game is to twist international law until Israel—or the U.S.—has no way to fight against terrorists. WSJ editorial:
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"The tunnel shaft from which the hostages' bodies were extracted - apparently, completely normal. Concrete, ladder, 10 meters deep. "You will probably no longer be surprised to hear that the building inside which the shaft is located - was built by UNRWA, with European.
3/ פיר המנהרה שממנו חולצו הגופות - לכאורה, רגיל לחלוטין. בטון, סולם, 10 מטר עומק. נדרשו כמה ימים של לחימה במרחב ושל חקר הפיר עד שהגיעו לגופות החטופים בתוכו. בטח כבר לא תופתעו לשמוע שהמבנה שבתוכו נמצא הפיר - נבנה ע״י אונר״א, במימון אירופי, כפי שמסגיר השלט על המבנה >>
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Even if a Palestinian state were created tomorrow, Iran and its proxy network would still try to destroy Israel—destabilizing or taking over the new state. For them, the problem in the Middle East has never been the lack of a Palestinian state but the presence of a Jewish one.
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They are who we thought they were.
We call on the Biden administration to reject the far-right Israeli government’s “transparent” attempt to distract from the #Gaza #genocide by dragging the U.S. into a regional war and instead demand that the Israeli government de-escalate the crisis it started. #Iran #Israel
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Stripped of its air defenses, Iran is now playing with an empty net. Hezbollah and Hamas can no longer defend it either. The region awaits a U.S. Administration awake to the possibilities. WSJ editorial:
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The ICC has lost sight of the distinction between the death squad and the bomber pilot, on which the possibility of just war depends. Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, has put his own court to the torch. WSJ editorial:
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Chuck Schumer, on directions from the White House, has held up U.S. sanctions against the ICC for nearly six months. This is the same Sen. Schumer who loves to tell Jewish audiences that he’s their shomer, or guardian, in Congress. WSJ editorial:
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“Opposing forced transfer” is Arab propaganda. Gazans have been desperate to flee, but Egypt has prevented them from escaping the fighting. For 15 months, Egypt has barricaded them into the war zone. In no other case is blocking refugees considered liberal.
Why it matters: Since the start of the war in Gaza, Egypt and Jordan have led the Arab world's opposition to any forced transfer by Israel of Palestinians from Gaza.
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Remember Todd Beamer of Flight 93 by Mene Ukueberuwa. Very moving article. I did not know that Beamer and the other three ringleaders of the passenger revolt were all athletes. Three of the four were frat presidents. via @WSJOpinion.
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There's a reason "anti-Netanyahu protesters" in Washington tore down Old Glory, burned it, and sent up the PLO flag in its place:. By and large, the anti-Israel movement despises America. WSJ editorial:
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“Nearly 52% of the defendants it bailed out since mid-2020 subsequently failed to appear in court, and 20.6% were later charged with a felony in King County,” including 3 for murder. Read @JillianKayM on Seattle’s Northwest Community Bail Fund.
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WSJ editorial: Biden is sending the wrong message to our friends and especially our enemies in the Middle East. He may also pay a bigger political price at home than he realizes.
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Read @rupasubramanya's letter in tomorrow's WSJ on the truckers and Canada's left-wing establishment:
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The Biden Administration now congratulates itself for a policy that “made it impossible for Iran and Hezbollah to continue to prop up the Assad regime.”. Israel made that impossible, against President Biden’s wishes. WSJ editorial:
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President Biden, Oct. 18: "If Hamas diverts or steals the assistance, . it will end.". Hamas diverts and steals aid every day, and the Biden Administration's response is to demand more of it.
It turns out Hamas didn't just take hostages, it seized the eye glasses, blood pressure medicine sent to them. Why has the US not been as insistent at ensuring humanitarian relief reaches them?.
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Finally bored of undermining support for a small, faraway and much-assailed democracy, Mr. Beinart has moved on to . wait.
In its moves toward official recognition of Taiwan, the Biden administration is quietly increasing the risks of a third world war
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"Haters of Israel will blame it and excuse Hamas every time, and the media are easily manipulated into playing along.". WSJ editorial:
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Expediting weapons shipments to Israel and enforcing oil sanctions against Iran would do more to prevent a larger war than all the U.S. and EU's words urging restraint. WSJ editorial:
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While @emmagf describes the lynching of Yankel Rosenbaum as occurring "in the melees that followed" a car accident, understand that the NYT is continuing its 30-year campaign of lies about the Crown Heights Riot. I wrote about it, in depth, last year:
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Carter accused Begin of sacrificing “permanent security for Israel” and “the approbation of the world” for the sake of a few settlers in Sinai. Begin gave in. Israel is still waiting on the approbation, but take a look where those settlements, the Yamit cluster, were located…
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Reporter should be embarrassed. As if it's at all appropriate to ask a US senator whether the elected leader of a foreign ally should "stay in power," whatever that means. Should Justin Trudeau remain in power? Even some Canadians are frustrated with him. Yes or no? Zelensky?
John Fetterman doesn't care what you think
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Israel credits American force with delaying Iran’s attack. Each delay, the Israelis estimate, reduces the intensity of the response Iran thinks it can get away with. “The U.S. show of force is what actually makes escalation less likely.”. WSJ editorial:
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In essence, "if you feel unsafe as your city degenerates, that's your moral failing.". This is the kind of stuff liberals whistled to the graveyard in the '60s and '70s. Unfortunately, they took U.S. cities with them.
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Thank G-d Israel didn’t surrender the Golan Heights to Syria, as all the U.S. experts and peace-processors recommended in the 1990s. As usual, there were also some Israelis willing to go along with it at the time.
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A mandatory form of amnesia is being pushed on Israel:. Thou shalt not remember what actually existing Palestinian nationalism looks like. Read my reporting from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and southern Israel in tomorrow's WSJ.
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Worth recalling that most everything in the new Atlantic piece about Stanford was reported a few months ago, with audio and video evidence, by @aaronsibarium in the Free Beacon. No credit given in the Atlantic, naturally.
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"I have fought for the children of this city the entire length of the pandemic," writes @karol, and it's true. "But now I have to think of my own children and get them to sanity. We can no longer wait for our city to return to it.". Superb article.
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“Hello?” Benjamin Netanyahu begins over the phone. “I’m going to give you a précis of everything that happened because we stand now at a crossroads of history. “The campaign that we carried out changed the Middle East.”. My latest: The Inside Story of Israel's Comeback Victory
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WSJ editorial invites Justin Trudeau to take the logical next step: Emigrate to the U.S., run for Congress and campaign with Beto O'Rourke. via @WSJOpinion.
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Nancy Pelosi joined a letter signed by 40 House Democrats urging President Biden to stop transferring weapons to Israel. Cutting off weapons to an ally in wartime would be the definition of betrayal. WSJ editorial:
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“The Jews should be denied everything as a nation but granted everything as individuals,” France’s National Assembly heard in 1789. On a growing part of the American left, the infamous offer stands. My reflections on the UCLA case and the campus anti-Israel fanatics:
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Look at that protester, non-violently throwing a brick through a shop window.
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Now the masterminds of Oct. 7 are learning that President Biden can’t protect them. WSJ editorial:
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A guy just fled from me on the subway—grabbed his backpack and ran down the car to another empty seat—at the sight of the Claremont Review of Books. Didn’t know it had that power.
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Secular Israeli family (no kippahs, at least) at a kosher bagel shop in NYC. Haredi owner comes up, tells them everything is free, grab whatever you want. ❤️.
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A two-page ad I did not expect to see in the last issue of National Review:
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Multimillionaire celebrities staged a boycott and now, as it's about to fizzle, they avoid answering questions with a lame excuse about "mental well-being.". Naturally, the reporters who cover them nod along.
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AIPAC helped primary a loon who said Hamas aren't terrorists and another who denied Oct. 7 atrocities and lost even JStreet's support. Neither paid attention to their districts. Politico: AIPAC is genociding Progressives.
Progressives face an existential threat from AIPAC. And there's nothing to stop it.
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Israel agreed to “take the win” against Hamas—as Biden now advises with regard to Iran—all the way to catastrophe. To learn the lessons of Oct. 7 is to reject Biden's advice after April 13. My article for tomorrow's WSJ:
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A journalist asks Perlstein about the use of buzzwords like CRT and equity and how they mean different things to conservatives and liberals. This is how he replied. This has been your recurring look into the mind of the foremost liberal historian of American conservatism.
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The Biden Administration expands its sanctions regime against Israel while letting Hamas and Hezbollah off the hook. WSJ editorial:
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"Now Kanye has really crossed a line," you might say. If only. Farrakhan says the same stuff, and the Congressional Black Caucus invited him to lunch. Jesse Jackson used his bodyguards while running for president. Black student groups competed to host his deputies to speak.
Alex Jones: "You're not Hitler. You're not a Nazi.". Ye: "Well, I see good things about Hitler, also. Every human being has value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler."
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There is a way to criticize Israel's remarkable feat of vaccination and, to all of our surprise, the NYT's Jerusalem bureau chief has found it.
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The White House wants to talk about 2,000-pound bombs. But why is it holding up the sale of 500-pound bombs? JDAMs + small-diameter bombs for precision? Tank ammo? Artillery rounds?. Biden's goal isn’t to change how Israel fights. He's trying to stop Israel from fighting Hamas.
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Iran’s regime is richer than it was when Biden took office and stopped enforcing sanctions; more aggressive than it was as Biden has failed to respond to its terrorism; and much closer to having a nuclear weapon. Hard to imagine a more complete policy failure. WSJ editorial:
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The Reform Judaism we need.
A non-partisan word to our elected #Democrats: Do not take American #Jews for granted. Be careful: The results of the upcoming elections do not only depend on Michigan.
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I feel like this, about the Pfizer CEO, did not get enough play at the time.
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Blanket lockdowns, proliferating mandates and irrational, inconsistent and once-unthinkable restrictions of personal liberty—and now is time for the right to still its libertarian instinct?. Far from “ossified Reaganism,” suspicion of government power has rarely been more needed.
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President Biden, Oct. 18, 2023:. If Hamas diverts or steals the aid, it will end.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱Secretary of State Blinken & Secretary of Defense Austin sent a letter on Monday to Israel demanding it takes steps within 30 days to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza in order to avoid consequences in U.S. law for U.S. milirary aid to Israel. See letter here:
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Iran's ballistic-missile barrage is an act of war against a sovereign state and American ally, and it warrants a response targeting Iran’s military and nuclear assets. The question for American and Israeli leaders is: If not now, when?
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Is U.S. foreign policy on autopilot?. WSJ editorial:
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This new op-ed is urgent. @PhilWMagness + Peter Earle show that before Covid, the mainstream scientific community opposed lockdown strategies. Why? They hadn't worked in practice, had severe costs, and benefits were entirely speculative. via @WSJOpinion.
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@mlindgrin2000 @ConradMBlack Still no epidemic, but that's even more misleading. More relevant basic figures than total share of population would be share of arrests, violent crimes, murders, etc.
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'Haredi white privilege' had to be the next shoe to drop. The ACLU of New York would like to say that the Jews are stealing money from black kids. But that raises eyebrows, so it found a workaround. .
For years, district leaders in East Ramapo have extracted resources from public schools, which are almost entirely attended by students of color, in order to lavishly fund yeshivas attended by white students.
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For many like Peter Beinart, the "Jewish thing" is powerlessness, and the moral purity that comes with it. Jews never have to fight and kill--only die, while a violin plays in a minor key. What could be more Jewish?
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The international community was wrong. Pressure on Hamas, military and political, was the key all along. Read my Weekend Interview with Israel Katz, the Israeli foreign minister:
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Biden had Schumer block ICC sanctions. Biden refused to enforce Iran oil sanctions. Biden waived PA and PLO terror sanctions. All the while, Biden has piled sanctions on Israel. WSJ editorial:
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"It was probably inevitable that the wave of progressive cancel culture would arrive at the Journal, as it has at nearly every other cultural, business, academic and journalistic institution. But we are not the New York Times." via @WSJ.
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1) New Yorker Union (lol).2) "From the river to the sea," referencing the destruction of Israel, but with plausible deniability.3) Bourgeois liberals pledging solidarity, always a good time.4) Tweet deleted, nice solidarity, guys.
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